OCA News: OCA Short Courses

Posted: 13/01/25 03:11 | 0 Comments

Our next short course sign up deadline is approaching for a February start!

Open College of the Arts short courses are ideal to supplement existing studies, fill a study gap, or to take as a standalone course. These are proving very popular and OCA students are working alongside external practitioners, Open University students and Royal Photographic Society members with really exciting cross fertilisation of ideas.

Register by 15 January

Available worldwide

Full details are on our website here.

You can watch a video presentation (8m 30s) below with program leader Dr. Dan Robinson, and tutors Garry Clarkson and Dr. Ariadne Xenou about Open College of the Arts photography short courses at Royal Photographic Society annual conference.

OCA Short Course: Investigating Place with Psychogeography

Tutors: Garry Clarkson and Helen Warburton

How do places make us feel and behave and how can this be conveyed to an audience?

Learn about the effect of different locations on creativity, emotions and behaviour as you explore places.

“Incredibly valuable… completely shifted my feelings and focus on a photo or approach”

OCA Short Course: Photography as Language

Tutor: Dr Ariadne Xenou

In this photography short course, you won’t be told what photography is. Instead you will be introduced to key approaches to thinking in photographs and making photographic work.